?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) GEORGIA. Sheriff's detailed receipt for the seizure and auction of a Negro boy Ben. Long folio leaf, written by hand, signed by the sheriff, an apparent agent for the buyer, and docketed on the reverse. Warren County, GA, 1838
An unusual document wherein Sheriff William Anderson states that he 'did lately seize and levy upon a certain Negro boy Ben, the property of Samuel P. Howard, to settle various and sundry debts owed to John G. Winter.' He goes on to say that after advertising in the 'Public Gazette' the boy was put at auction and 'Knocked off to William Stone at the price of four hundred and two dollars, he being the highest bidder.' The remainder of the document is guarantee that the boy Ben is sold to William Stone 'his heirs and assigns.' This is the first time we have had a receipt for the sheriff's sale of a slave at auction.
